I made this last week and just finished the last piece with my tea this morning. Hands down this was the best cheese cake I have made. It was easy to make, there is a lot of hands off time needed bake and cool but other than that I am totally going to make it again. I will definitely make it the day before I … Continue reading New York Cheesecake
I made this crumb cake earlier this week for our World Wide Wednesday family dinner to NJ. While crumb cake was not necessarily invented in New Jersey, this style of crumb cake with the ratio of crumb topping to cake is a regional obsession according to google. They were not wrong when they said the crumb topping is more than half of the cake. I … Continue reading Crumb Cake
I know I have shared many times that my family of foodies has a weekly family dinner we call it World Wide Wednesday even though family dinner is on Tuesdays now. My father-in-law calls it traveling Tuesdays; my family is so clever LOL. For 2026 we are eating our way through the United States. Last week we were in New Hampshire. How fitting since we … Continue reading Moist Orange Cake
I hope my USA friends all had a lovely but safe Fourth of July celebration. We spent it with good friends and family! We got in some much needed pool time, it has been super hot and humid around here for the last few days. We ended the night watching some local fireworks with our granddaughter, which was super special. I hope you got to … Continue reading Gooey Butter Cake Cookies
I made this ice cream last week and it was stupid good! So much so I am making it again and then I should lose the recipe because we do not need more ice cream in our lives. So why am I documenting it here, so I won’t lose it. I just can’t make this weekly, we would be in big trouble with trying to … Continue reading Mississippi Mud Pie Ice Cream
I used to have the best whoopie pie recipe over 30 years ago. I hunted for years trying to find it again. I got it from a co-worker in the mid 90’s and made them several times until I lost the recipe and never tried making them again, until last week. The only reason I even tried to make them again was for our WWW … Continue reading Whoopie Pie
What a busy weekend around here this weekend. Yesterday was spent in town with my family at the Children and the Arts day. It is kind of near and dear to my heart as this is its 31st year and my kids use to participate and I volunteered for years, most schools and day care centers in the area create something for the kids to … Continue reading Louisiana Crunch Cake
So the only new thing I made this week I did not believe it would be worthy of sharing, guess I was wrong. I had not planned on what I was going to make for our world wide Wednesday family meal. I actually almost bagged it entirely. We were going to have a meal from Delaware and the first dessert I came across was Pretzel … Continue reading Peach Pie – last minute!
For those of you who also follow along on my World Wide Wednesday journey’s I know I have not posted this year’s journey yet, I will this week, but this recipe from our Colorado night was crazy good and totally worth sharing with you now. If you want to follow along on I post on Instagram http://www.cookingatclarktowers.com. Our WWW family dinners this year we are … Continue reading Rocky Mountain Avalanche Bars
Today my grocery shopping list will have quite a few different ingredients than my usual list. Thanksgiving is quickly coming up and I will be cooking for the family plus. The plus can be friends, extended family and on rare occasions friends of family members; we have had all of the above over the years. This year will definitely look different with the passing of … Continue reading Curly Cues
